Partridge, Eric

A dictionary of the underworld, British and American. Being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs.

London: Theodore Brun, Ltd., [1950]. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies (this is copy 114), small 4to, pp. xv, [1], 804; publisher's full black morocco gilt; near fine throughout. Issued simultaneously with the trade edition. The first 100 of this issue were signed by Partridge. Item #52350

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